and then it comes from a greek word skandalon.the word "offense" comes from a greek word "skandalon" which means the part of the animal trap that the bait hung on that lured in the victim. so i want you to realize that all these opportunities to be offended are simply the devil trying to draw us into his trap so we do not ever become the people that god wants us to be. i hate to say this, and i don't mean to sound negative, but i think there's probably more angry christians than there are ones that are totally at peace with everybody. and you know what? truly, being an angry christian is an oxymoron. it just doesn't--what i mean by that is it doesn't compute. christians are supposed to be full of love and forgiveness and mercy and, you know, not easily offended and always believing the best. you know, to be a christian is more than to go to church on sunday and then go home and never change. we need to really believe this stuff and put it to work in our life. and we can be offended about so many different things. you can be offend